Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World /
Picard, Christophe
Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / Christophe Picard. - 1 online resource (314 p.) : 2 halftones, 8 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? -- I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation -- 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean -- 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean -- 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad -- 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean -- 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids -- 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs -- 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions -- II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs -- 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires -- 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model -- 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West -- 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad? -- 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion -- Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory -- Notes -- Glossary -- Chronologies -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674982666
10.4159/9780674982666 doi
Abbasids--History, Naval.
Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea
Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
DS37.8 / .P52813 2018eb
909/.0982201
Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / Christophe Picard. - 1 online resource (314 p.) : 2 halftones, 8 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? -- I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation -- 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean -- 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean -- 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad -- 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean -- 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids -- 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs -- 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions -- II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs -- 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires -- 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model -- 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West -- 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad? -- 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion -- Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory -- Notes -- Glossary -- Chronologies -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674982666
10.4159/9780674982666 doi
Abbasids--History, Naval.
Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea
Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
DS37.8 / .P52813 2018eb
909/.0982201